Faculty+meeting

April 17, 2012 Faculty Meeting WEMTA Notes

[|TodaysMeet] helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.

[|Classtools] name picker, [|timer], venn diagrams, jigsaw, diagrams, plagiarizr media type="custom" key="14472220" [|Edmodo] provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. First two steps: create an account and then create a group that you could use this with.

[|Myebook]Create your eBooks, Photo albums, Comics, Magazines, Fanzines, Brochures, Books. When you're done, publish and share your ebook full of photos, drawings, and stories.

[|Dropbox]- cloud storage for free.

[|Cueprompter]is a free teleprompter/autocue service.

[|Weebly]- free website creation and very user friendly (if you are interested let me know... they have a referral program).

[|Wallwisher]- online notice board tool. It can be used for writing (limited to 160 characters), brainstorming, voc. ideas, classrules, notifications

[|Voki]- creating a customized talking avatar that expresses itself

[|Livebinders]- 3 ring binder for the web that allows you to collect and organize your resources for easy access.

[|Crocodoc]- annotate a pdf using highlighters or drawing tools

[|Glogster]- online poster making

Random topics:

[|Follett Shelf]- login: lincoln password: lions

[|Shelfari]

[|Tech Bytes]

mimio vote- (or you could try M. Socrative)

Check out [|TED talks] videos- like flipped classrooms

Ipad- they are coming-- 7 this year, 12 next year wawmapps.wikispaces Marian College recommended apps

According to Rushton Hurley:

**What's going away?** Paper, classroom desks in a row, printers, keyboards, wires, calendar driven curricula, isolated teachers
====**What's to come?** new approaches to notes, taking control of your own Prof. Development (use youtube), social networking style of communication, flipped classrooms, game and scenario based learning (edurounds.com), encouraging kids to see new possibilities====